The US Congress is Considering One of the Biggest Nuclear "Bail-Outs" Ever, Your Action is Needed Now to Stop the Mobile Chernobyl Act — S 104 & HR 1270
DO YOU SUPPorT MorE NUCLEAR WELFARE?
READY For NATIONWIDE NUCLEAR WASTE SHIPMENTS?
ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIVE ALL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS?
THE US CONGRESS IS CONSIDERING ONE OF THE BIGGEST NUCLEAR "BAIL-OUTs" EVER,
YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED NOW TO STOP THE MOBILE CHERNOBYL ACT — S 104 & HR 1270
SENATE VOTE LIKELY IN MAY, 1998
CALL YOUR SENATorS (202)224-3121 — Capital switchboard
TELL THEM TO OPPOSE THE NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1997 — (Murkowski, S 104) that it does more harm than good and is a false "solution" to nuclear waste. This bill only serves the interests of the nuclear utilities that want to keep making more.
While you are at it, send them a simple handwritten letter too. And get at least 2 (or M!WR=) friends and family to do this as well. Write: Senator xyz, US Senate, Washington, DC 20510
WHY THIS IS A FALSE SOLUTION TO THE WASTE PROBLEM:
1)It redirects nuclear waste policy to put up a parking-lot dump at Yucca Mountain, Nevada that may become de facto permanent, in an area that would not be licensed under current standards due to earthquakes (over 600 in the last 10 years). Of course, the bill also waves current standards! And all other environmental laws as well!
2)It is Western Shoshone land, and they do not want the nation's nuclear waste.
3)It just transfers an inadequate storage technology —dry cask storage — from one place to another with no added management advantage. The nuclear utilities benefit since under this new plan since they get to transfer ownership of the waste to the taxpayer as each shipment leaves the gate. "Like the S & L bail-out with a toxic twist!" --Sen. Paul Wellstone
4)Meanwhile there is a huge nuclear hazard of moving the waste an average of 2000 miles per shipment — ¾ of the nuclear reactors are east of the Mississippi River — and it will take 30 years. This is completely unjustified if the site is in fact temporary and the waste may have to be moved again...but in any case:
5)The new legislation imposes unrealistic deadlines on nuclear waste transport that are reckless when one considers that planning and preparation have not even started at the local level and shipments would begin in just 2—3 years. Each year this program would move as much irradiated fuel than the last 30 years combined.
6)This shipping campaign will move 100,000 tons of the most deadly nuclear material on earth through the front yards of 30 million people in 43 states, over a 30 year period, to a parking lot. We can do better than this.
Tell your Senators to vote NO S104!
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